Software Reliability Assessment for Branching Structures: A Hierarchical Approach

Kuball Silke; Nikulin Mikhail; May John; Limnios Nikolaos; Gordon Hughes

Software Reliability Assessment for Branching Structures: A Hierarchical Approach

Kuball Silke, Nikulin Mikhail, May John, Limnios Nikolaos, Gordon Hughes

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An increased use of software systems in safety-critical applications has made the estimation of the software probability of failure on demand (pfd) an issue of great importance. In this paper, estimation of the system pfd is based on the decomposition of the system into a set of sub-systems with independent failure behaviour. Structures which fork and then join again can pose a problem when it comes to defining independently failing sub-systems. A Bayesian approach performed on two levels of granularity is suggested to perform system pfd estimation on such structures.

Translated title of the contribution	Software Reliability Assessment for Branching Structures: A Hierarchical Approach
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings on the Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR 2000
Publisher	University Victor Segalen
Pages	655 - 658
Number of pages	3
Publication status	Published - 2000

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Software Reliability Assessment for Branching Structures: A Hierarchical Approach. / Silke, Kuball; Mikhail, Nikulin; John, May et al.
Proceedings on the Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR 2000. University Victor Segalen, 2000. p. 655 - 658.

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